CC's Innovation Development & Entrepreneur Assistance (IDEA) Center's mission is to get people thinking entrepreneurially by promoting

creative thinking.

"At the IDEA Center, we work to advance the understanding that entrepreneurship is a learned way of thinking. It's an approach to challenges that embraces risk and problem solving in creative and collaborative ways," said Stacie Hargis, Entrepreneurship Program Coordinator.

"Anyone ­ students, faculty, staff and members of the community ­ can bring an idea to the center to get guidance on how to turn their ideas into reality."

Started in 2013, MCC's IDEA Center received start-up funds from a $15,000 grant from the Coleman Foundation. The independent foundation is committed to improving the quality of entrepreneurship education, promoting the option of self-employment, and helping to create a new generation of business owners.

MCC's

IDEA

Center

Helps the Community

Put

Ideas

into

Action

Faculty, community advisors and students bounce around ideas in the IDEA Center.